AK Or AR Pistol Not Loud Enough? Here’s The Solution

Is your non-suppressed AR or AK just not loud enough for your tastes? Are you tired of your shooting sessions not attracting enough attention from angry neighbors and sullen LEOs? Ares Armor and Snake Hound Machining have the answer to this question. And if you couldn’t hear the question, it’s probably because you’re already deaf . . .

The descriptively-monikered ‘Loudener’ is a single-chamber muzzle brake that doesn’t really give a crap about recoil reduction. It’s designed for only one purpose: maximum muzzle blast. As a free side-benefit, it also maximizes muzzle flash from your SBR, AR or AK pistols.

Here it is in action on an AK ‘Draco’ pistol. These already compete with the Mosin-Nagant M44 carbine as perhaps the loudest and most flash-happy firearms ever built, so I’m not really seeing a need to make them even more so. But whatever lights your wick, I suppose.

And here it is mounted to an AR pistol, with some commentary from the Jesus-bearded dude at Snake Hound Machining.

Wait, what was that? Did you say something? Oh, yeah. The Loudener is only $75, but none of us are volunteering to ask for a T&E sample.

No people like this are just assholes. They also take up hours at a time at the firing position to make a dramatic effect. He was pissing off even the other Black powder shooters. I forgot to say how he liked to step back a little so a lot of the blast went down the overhead cover. I returned the favor by positioning myself so my brass peppered him.
This guy abused range etiquette in every possible way.

When I operate in operations I choose to operate with the loudest pistol I can find. This way if the enemy operators are operating with operator body armor, the noise will be enough to incapacitate them and cease their operations.

I won’t be buying one, but I got to admit that it’s kind of funny. I’ll bet they sell a ton of them. No one ever went broke in this country underestimating the taste or the intelligence of the American Public. Lot’s of guys want to look cool and make noise.

I had a similar reaction, but what I want is this, a Loudener designed to take a screw-on Normalizer. I’ll keep the normalizer on unless somewhat sidles up to the range with a center-fire gun with a muzzle brake. On that occurrence off comes the Normalizer.

When I’m operatin’ on a green-side op runnin’ my Loudener I can turn even the depths of hell into nothin’ but a convenient range on which to zero my cannonator and the devil himself’s gonna have to turn tail and, well…. at least grab some ear-pro.

Pfft. UN Ammo has been selling flash ENHANCERS for quite some time. I would imagine it’s fairly similar. But stay away from Ares Armor. Unless you don’t mind paying now, waiting 11 months for your items, and having customer service repeatedly ignore your requests to cancel your order and issue a refund.

What the well is wrong with people… an AR pistol in my mind is completely useless… I understand SBRs but then throw a beta mag, and a ridiculous muzzle device on and my mind is blown… I guess its too Operator for me to understand

SBRs are not legal in every state. For some, this is as close as you get to an SBR. Additionally, some states do not allow transport of loaded rifles, but they do allow for transport of a loaded pistol. These are still considered pistols.

Also the reporting requirements when you try to take it out of state suck. I move every two years and sometimes it is shorter notice than the ATF turn around for “permission” to leave the state you are in. Plus if I am forced to live in a non SBR friendly state I am SOL and have to store it properly out of state.

Too late. I’m already deaf, or so my Significant Other tells me. Having gone through Basic Training and subsequent requalifications with an M-1 Garand and no hearing protection, I require no aftermarket gadgetry.

A loudener / flash intensifier is the perfect enhancement for your home defense weapon. It simultaneously lights up the BGs and your furniture, attracting the attention of police, firefighters and the EPA while blowing your eardrums into the next county. Bravo!

We need more such devices. An upside-down compensator to increase muzzle rise would be my next choice, followed shortly by a spiked recoil pad.

AK and AR pistols both suffer loss of velocities due to shortened barrels, but I believe the 7.62 round actually doesn’t suffer as much as the 5.56. In any case, the cheap Serbian AK pistols that are available right now could use whatever muzzle device they can get…

I cannot fathom why anyone would actually _want_ to install one of these monstrosities on a Draco or an PAP M92; but it’s worth mentioning that the Zastava uses a relatively esoteric (and considerably larger than standard AK) M26x1.5LH thread.

Truthfully, one of those on an 7.62×39 SBR AK would be kinda fun. Muzzle flash, recoil, and noise can make things more entertaining when you’re just out on private land with a couple friends and a pile of water bottles, clays, cans of cheap soda, and other things to break. This is why my friends and I tend to go back to the mosins and garands when we’re just having fun. You know what I mean if you’ve ever put a 5 gallon bucket over a small amount of tannerite and shot it to see how high the bucket (or tactical mug, if you’re Tyler and Nick) flies, or went skeet shooting with pumpkins fired from a homemade trebuchet you and your friends made rather than clays. Sometimes excessive can be fun, if you’re still keeping the right distance and taking some safety precautions.

How to have any rifle range all to yourself in three easy steps:
1. Buy a Loudener
2. Rig it up to a Mosin-Nagant M44 carbine
3. Count how many people pack their sh!t and leave within firing your first ten rounds.

It’s like replacing the 60 to 0 mph in 130 feet factory brakes in your car with 60 to 0 in 260 feet aftermarket brakes.

Twenty-somethings with skulls painted on their AR15s and skulls tattooed on their face might want one, but even that market segment might pause to process a couple of sentient thoughts before reaching for their billfolds.

Someday, hearing aid company stock prices will make Berkshire Hathaway look like the Susquehanna Hat Company.

Actually I could see a use for it if it had a quick release. Small group of people take on a larger force in surprise raid (or vise versa) and all of a sudden it sounds like your being attack at close range with heavy automatic weapons. It would sow confusion and panic. However after the first 5-10 minutes it would be a liability.